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An Open Source Data Visualization Framework For Charts And Graphs

Axiis is an open source data visualization framework designed for beginner and expert developers alike. Whether you are building elegant charts for executive briefings or exploring the boundaries of advanced data visualization research, Axiis has something for you. It gives developers the ability to expressively define their data visualizations through concise and intuitive markup. Axiis has been designed with a specific focus on elegant code, where your code can be just as beautiful as your visual output. By leveraging {inline} Flex Binding and the Axiis markup syntax you don't need to write volumes of code to produce amazing results. In fact, some of the more complex Axiis examples have no more than 200 lines of code.

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21 Free And Useful Web Tools For Web Designers

This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find the simplest online web designer's tools that are developed for designers and may be very helpful for you as well when you want to get your work done or just for fun. I hope web designers will like this list, but you can also use them and will love them whether you are an office worker, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, etc. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of 21 Free And Useful Web Tools For Web Designers. Just take a look at them and share your thought's here.

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13 Simply Useful WordPress Plugins That Can Make Lives Easier

This is another post about useful wordpress plugins. There are hundreds of wordpress plugins available on the internet. Some of them are very useful and some of them are only for sake of existence. But itâ€™s totally up to you that how you can make your wordpress blog more strong and powerful using different plugins to give your blog readers an amazing and wonderful experience.

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21 Premium-Like Free Photoblog Themes For WordPress

Few days ago, we have been requested to list down some beautiful photoblog themes for wordpress. Today, we are going to deliver the most beautiful collection of photoblog themes for wordpress. This is not the long list with all the available wordpress themes on the internet but this is an exclusive collection of free photoblog wordpress themes that are nice, simple and elegant looking and you may consider any of these themes as per your need if you are searching for your photoblog.

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Agility! An Approach to Fight Global Recession

Most of the countries all over the world are going through the phase of economic recession. Many old and big companies have already been brought down on their knees to bite the dust. Many companies as well as countries have become bankrupt or are on the verge of it. Millions and millions of people have lost their jobs. Many people have lost millions and billions of dollars. People in general are scared and fearsome. This is not the first time that the global economy is going through recession and this is also not the last time. There is a pattern involved in it. On an average it is happening after every 8-10 years.

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50+ Truly Useful Photoshop Tutorials For Amazing Photo Effects

Designers love all of those photoshop tutorials that can help them to learn more and more everyday and give them direction to design more beautiful and attractive creative works. And the demand for Photo Effects tutorials are too much in these days. We know this very well and SmashingApps is all about to feature all those smashing stuffs that are free and useful for designers. Today, we are going to list down 50+ Truly Useful Photoshop Tutorials For Amazing Photo Effects. We hope you all will like this collection.How to Digitally Paint Lip Gloss with a Tablet

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15 Excellent And Useful Microsoft Silverlight Tutorials & Resources

Microsoft Silverlight is a free framework empowering you to build new types of applications for the Web regardless of target platform or browser, using all the familiar features, languages and tools of the .NET framework. To see the magic of Silverlight, we must suggest you to check out this showcase applications on Microsoft's website. Here is the list of 15 Excellent And Useful Microsoft Silverlight Tutorials & Resources that includes some useful tutorials and few great applications that has been developed on Microsoft Silverlight. We are hoping that you will learn further on Microsoft Silverlight after reading out this post.The Importance of an Impressive User Interface

The Importance of an Impressive User Interface

In this lesson of the Silverlight tutorial, you will learn about the elements used for drawing graphics and to animate graphics by using Expression Blend.

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Thank You Our Valued Sponsors To Be With Us In The Month Of April

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9 Online Free And Useful Tools That Can Help Designers A Lot

We are always in the search for useful stuffs on the internet that are freely available for everyone and specially for designers who spend their whole day in to design or create something creative. We aimed to help you and keep you updated with all the new online tools that you probably would love to use. In past, we have listed various free web apps that are really useful for any one of you and specially for designers. Today, we are listing 9 Online Free And Useful Tools That Can Help Designers A Lot that are not only for designers and every one of you will probably love to use any or all of them. Whether you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. This post contains a diversified collection of free web apps and we tried to make sure to add something interesting for everyone. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features and functionality. Just take a look at them and share your thought here.Browsershots

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server.

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11 Most Popular Cross-Platform And Free Softwares

There are many software available that we can purchase and use to get our job done. But what do you think about those softwares that are cross-platform and available for free as well. In simple words, Cross-platform can be defined as any software that can work on more than one operating system and specially are available for Windows, Mac and Linux environment. This is absolutely a great list of 11 Most Popular Cross-Platform And Free Softwares. Donâ€™t forget to bookmark this post for your future reference as it has few most useful and free application that will be helpful for you when you want any cross-platform software to get your job done.Skype

You can use Skype to call another person who also has Skype on his computer. Skype is free to call anywhere in the world regardless of location and time.

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Thank You Our Valued Sponsors To Be With Us In The Month Of March

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31 Masterpieces Of Creative And Clever Advertising Concepts

I believe that strong advertisement is a fastest way to convey the message to the audience and if they are attractive as become inspiration for others so itâ€™s more useful. Sometimes they are just an advertisement but some companies works very hard to make their promotional / advertisement campaign very unique, striking and successful. There must be innovation and creativity involve in any successful creative advertisement campaign. Today, I am sharing another post of Extremely Creative Advertisements I have Ever Seen in which I have collected 31 Masterpieces Of Creative And Clever Advertising Concepts. Maybe most of you guys already had a look at some of these but we tried to make this compilation very inspiring, interesting and entertaining for everyone and specially for our exclusive readers. Just take a look at them.Greenpeace

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23 Ultimate Collection Of Useful Ajax Tutorials & Resources

Ajax a short form of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is a set of techniques used by many modern and popular web sites. This technique allows portions of a Web page to be updated without refreshing the entire page and to increase the web page's interactivity, speed, and usability that is a significant advance in the development of websites and web-based applications. For example, a site might allow you to rate a product or item by clicking on a star image. With Ajax, your vote could be registered without having to load the entire page again. If you already know about Javascript, HTML, CSS and XML then you will need to spend your 1 hour to start with AJAX. Here is the list of 23 Ultimate Collection Of Useful Ajax Tutorials & Resources that includes some useful tutorials and few great resources like script, examples etc. We are hoping that you will learn further on Ajax after reading out this post.Google AJAX APIs

Google's AJAX APIs let you implement rich, dynamic web sites entirely in JavaScript and HTML. You can add a map to your site, a dynamic search box, or download feeds with just a few lines of JavaScript. If you want to play around with them, try using the Interactive Code Playground.

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Thank You Our Valued Sponsors To Be With Us In The Month Of February

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11 Premium But Free And Useful Web Apps For Designers

In past, we have listed various free web apps that are really useful for any one of you and specially for designers. Today, we are listing 11 Premium But Free Web Apps For Designers that are not only for designers and every one of you will probably love to use. Whether you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. But we make sure to add something interesting for everyone. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features and functionality. Just take a look at them and share your thought here.An Ultimate Stop For Free Online Surveys

Free survey software for online surveys, web surveys, email surveys. Free Online survey software for customer satisfaction surveys, employee satisfaction surveys, market research surveys.

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45 Must-See Incredible Resources And Inspirational Collection To Discover The Best Of The Web In January

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, "Discover the Best of the Web" on SmashingApps. In this, we make a list of 45 Must-See Incredible Resources And Inspirational Collection. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we will try to cover as much as possible.40 Brilliantly Photoshopped Print Ads